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A Conversation with Philip Gerard on The Last Battleground (conclusion)

Posted on July 27, 2019 by Chris Mackowski

Part six of six We’ve been talking this week with Philip Gerard, author of The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina (UNC Press, 2019). During the course of my conversation with him, one thing theme that has … Continue reading →

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Onward from Columbia: Experiences of Union Soldiers in Sherman’s Armies

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Daniel Davis

Writing after the end of the war, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman wrote that his armies left Columbia South Carolina “utterly ruined”. Resuming their march, Sherman wrote “the right wing began its march northward, towards Winnsboro, on the 20th, which … Continue reading →

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